Preparation of Papers for IFAC Conferences & Symposia: Computer-aided Processing of Manual Assembly Operations with Integration of Simulation Tools in Production Processes

In this paper, we describe the development of a simulation model. The model deals with the role of an assembly worker in the virtual environment. He performs sequences of common tasks in manufacturing processes like reaching, grasping, walking, lifting etc. We compare time reports by the analytical MTM method and reports automatically generated by the Siemens JACK 8.4 tool. The methodology gives an insight into influential parameters, dimensions and mass of object, which have an impact on the time reports. Results of our research show that the parameters differ in importance in the MTM and JACK analyses. For one combination of influential parameters, we perform a practical experiment and compare the obtained time analysis with previous results.